[Landscaping] Le Jardinier Fleuriste et Historiographe

Ou la Culture Universelle des fleurs, arbres, arbustes & arbrisseaux servans a l'embellisement des jardins. Avec la manière de dresser toutes fortes de parterres, berceaux de verdures, bosquets (...) le tout enrichie d'un grand nombre de figures demonstratives, par Louis Liger, [2 parts in one vol.], Amsterdam, Estienne Roger, 1706.

12mo., overlapping vellum, title in hw on spine, title in red and black with small vignette, (22),679,(16) pp. followed by the editor's catalogue. 20 folding copper engravings and countless in-text woodcuts, binding foxed, as are endpapers and title page, various plates with small tears, binding ribbons missing, but overall a good copy, first edition.